cosmic imposter | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:00:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png cosmic imposter | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Nuked From Orbit: The February ’21 Banning https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/nuked-from-orbit-february-21-banning/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/nuked-from-orbit-february-21-banning/#respond Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:00:36 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22686 Wow. There are bannings, and then there are bannings. This was definitely the latter. Wizards looked at non-Standard Constructed, saw that it was poor, and nuked it. All of it, Historic, Pioneer, Legacy, and most importantly, Modern. Vintage also saw an unbanning. Because somebody had to get thrown a bone. Monday morning, Wizards dropped the largest […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/nuked-from-orbit-february-21-banning/feed/ 0 The Trouble with Tibalt: A Case Study https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/trouble-with-tibalt-case-study/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/trouble-with-tibalt-case-study/#respond Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:00:44 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22660 It's always interesting to see how spoiler predictions play out. You can have all the experience in the world with which to judge a card, but miss some corner interaction that just blows up. Or there's an application that you never considered. The only constant is that predictions will be off and there will be […]

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]]> https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/02/trouble-with-tibalt-case-study/feed/ 0 Snow-Thing to Consider: Kaldheim Spoiler Week 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/01/snow-thing-consider-kaldheim-spoiler-week-1/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2021/01/snow-thing-consider-kaldheim-spoiler-week-1/#respond Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:00:46 +0000 https://quietspeculation.com/?p=22527 It's time for that quarterly tradition of reviewing the latest spoilers! Which for the past few iterations has been oddly trepidatious. Prior to 2019, Modern never had to worry about a new set coming out. We maybe had one or two cards make lasting impressions, which kept the format stable. Then Wizards seemed to lose […]

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